Ruth Stone's Curtains

Since the patient has not had a real sense of belonging because of the distance of her parents, her personality development of Abraham Maslow’s hierarchy of needs is stuck in the belongingness and love needs. She is in a stage of life where she needs to give and receive love expressed through lover or mate and social relationships in groups; she is difficult to satisfy in a progressing society; and if these are not met, she will be emotionally maladjusted. Regina needs her friends’ and boyfriends’ confirmation all the time. She likes to be in a standstill stage and cannot handle

The criticism that I will be using is a rhetorical analysis which simply means analyzing texts on how they make the audience feel using symbols, the type of genre, aesthetics and more while also looking at why that happens. I decided to use a rhetorical

Discuss how your investigation of the generic conventions of poetry has influenced your understanding of at least one poem that you have studied in this unit.

Gilman’s use of pathos, makes the reader feel angry that the narrator is tied and bound to a society that thought confinement was the best cure for post-partum depression. She knows what is best for her, yet no one will listen, “I sometimes fancy that in my condition if I had less, opposition, and more society and stimulus- but John says the very worst thing I can do is to think about my condition, and I confess it always makes me feel bad” (Gilman, P.462). It made me feel bad that there was nothing that the narrator could do, but succumb to the norms of society, and try to recover without being around people, working, and living a normal

students at Welton Academy, a private school for boys, to a love of poetry and teaches the boys

“Story of an Hour” uses Louise Mallard’s repressed life as a wife to elucidate how repression can lead to bottled up depression. Louise Mallard understands the “right” way for women to behave, but her internal thoughts and feelings are anything but correct. This is first illustrated by the initial reaction to her husband’s death, where she cries instead of feeling numb, as she suspects other women would do. The death of her husband acts as a catalyst to alleviate her depression that rooted in her marriage. In the beginning of the story we are introduced to Louise’s heart problem, which shows the extent to which she believes her marriage has trapped her. The author of the story gives a vague description of Mallard’s heart condition just simply calling it a “heart problem” (Choplin 452). This vague description shows how her “heart problem” is both physical and

What do you think a normal human being needs to have a good, hearty life? What are the most basic needs that are vital to one’s survival? According to Maslow’s hierarchy of needs, physiological needs are those required to sustain life, such as air, water, nourishment, and sleep. If such needs are not satisfied, then one’s motivation will arise from the quest to satisfy them. Higher needs such as social needs and esteem are not felt until one has met the needs basic to one’s bodily functioning. Beyond the details of air, water, food, and sex, Maslow laid out five broader layers: the physiological needs, the needs for safety and security, the needs for love and belonging, the needs for esteem, and the need to actualize the

The Poem “Introduction to Poetry” is by Billy Collins, an English poet, and it is about how teachers often force students to over-analyze poetry and to try decipher every possible meaning portrayed throughout the poem rather than allowing the students to form their own interpretation of the poem based on their own experiences.

Abstractly, it almost seems as though the other characters in the book look down on his for this not because he is not mourning, but rather because he is not mourning in the way they are. This sheds light on the overall theme of the novel, that of people being cast out of society because their views and methods do not line up with the accepted ways of society.

'Stone Mattress' is a collection of short stories by Margaret Atwood that all have a very similar recurring theme. Though the four short stories analyzed are unrelated, they all examine the evils that exist in in modern society. Through this collection of short stories, both realistic fiction and fantasy, Atwood sheds light upon the evils that all people are capable of. Upon reading the short stories, the reader is able to connect with the characters, as the scenarios and characters are are relatable and engaging. The realistic fiction pieces within the novel such as The Dead Hand Loves You, Stone Mattress and The Freeze-Dried Groom narrate characters in situations that could very easily occur to anybody. It is no doubt that the internal dialogues

Maslow's five stage model is the principal explanation of how a child, who does not live in a safe environment or does not have a caring figure who help him/her develop is/her self-esteem, cannot reach self-actualization in life. Those grown up children have different motivators, and they lack the normal drives. Applying Maslow’s hierarchy, it is obvious that children who are raised between abusive caregivers will never have a safe home. Moreover, at stage three which is love and belonging, many children feel they do not belong to that home and they are not part of the family. Ted Bundy was notorious killer, he had met the first three needs: food, shelter, and belongingness however, he lacked the self-esteem he wanted. He then looked inward for comfort, he started masturbation and sexual fantasies, which

       As the tale begins we immediately can sympathize with the repressive plight of the protagonist.  Her romantic imagination is obvious as she describes the "hereditary estate" (Gilman, Wallpaper 170) or the "haunted house" (170) as she would like it to be.  She tells us of her husband, John, who "scoffs" (170) at her romantic sentiments and is "practical to the extreme" (170).  However, in a time

The story of Stone Mother functions both as an origin and etiological story because it provided a sense of values and explained the phenomena of nature’s creation in time. It’s amazing to analyze how certain landmarks in nature were created based upon the stories that were passed down through generations. The story shared the value of family and to appreciate the connection that exists between people and nature. If one does not acknowledge each others’ characteristics and the world around us, certain choices may lead to regrets later on in life. For example, the children were separated and sent to opposite sides of their mother homeland (“Stone Mother,” pg 11-12) due to discipline actions. Since the children left, the parent remained in their original location but were very sad and heartbroken when they learned about the band returning to fight the remaining groups (“Stone Mother,” pg 12). Overall, the important idea that this story wanted to provided is that any connections always exists among humans as well as the nature that surrounds us if we take the chance to appreciated each other existence.

into the poem. The section of the poem that will be analyzed is the final ten lines (25-34). The

The storyteller of Housekeeping is Ruth Stone, who relates the narrative of her troublesome youth and puberty in Fingerbone, a little group disengaged in the mountains of Idaho. She starts by reviewing the passing of her granddad, Edmund Foster, who died before she was conceived when a scaffold fallen and the train he was riding dove into Fingerbone Lake. Subsequently, Ruth's grandma was allowed to bring up her little girls to sit unbothered—the rest of the novel does not have a solid male vicinity. Amid Ruth's adolescence, her dad abandons the family, leaving Ruth, her sister Lucille, and their mom Helen to fight for themselves. Ruth and Lucille are in this way deserted by Helen, who leaves the youngsters all alone mother's doorstep and afterward